Brainwashing

The evildoers in this the centre force practitioners to read materials that defame Dafa and to view Video CDs that slander Dafa in attempts to brainwash them. They force Dafa practitioners to memorize the content of defamatory posters on the wall. If the Dafa practitioners refuse to co-operate, they threaten that "they would use extreme measures.

The false report stated: "The factory management and concerned organizations treated the task of the educational transformation (Editor's note: a euphemism for "brainwashing") of Xu Chuanli as their top priority political mission. They persuaded Xu patiently and with earnest words." In fact, this was a blatant violation of a citizen's freedom of belief.

She was hung with her hands tied behind her back before being sent to a brainwashing centre. All her fingernails were burned by cigarettes and had turned dark purple. She could not raise her arms after being hung and both of her hands turned dark. After witnessing the situation, a young female accomplice (those who are hired or assigned by work units to monitor practitioners closely) could not help crying.

At the brainwashing centre in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, an unknown substance was injected into the heads of determined Dafa practitioners. As a result, many practitioners suffered from mental disorder and could not even stand up. Some of the practitioners were later illegally sent to the Sanshui Labour Camp in Guangdong Province.

The party general secretary, Wang Lingkui, and the "610 Office" head, Qi Gang, tried to force her, but failed. When it was near 11 am, they called to report to the oil field public security bureau, which sent some policemen from the Security Team to Wang Wanrong's house. Wang Wanrong was forcibly dragged to a car by four people and sent to a brainwashing class held by the Nanyang City Cadre School of Politics and Law.

In the 2nd Female Brigade of Masanjia Labour Camp, more than 1300 Dafa practitioners are illegally detained. Instigated by the directors of the camp, Su Jing and Wang Naimin, the prison guards are committing criminal offences in persecuting Dafa practitioners. The methods they use are extremely cruel.

Practitioner Yin Xiaoxia said, "You want me to lie! Isn't that deceiving people?" Chen Chuanwei said, "You must say it, no matter if you want to or not. We will throw you into prison if you speak the truth, and we will let you go home if you lie. Let me tell you, as long as Jiang Zemin is in power, lies rule the country."

Yan Jin was handcuffed to the window post, with his feet barely touching the ground for a prolonged period in that mosquito-infested facility. He was not allowed to rest and was subjected to continuous torture. They forced him to watch anti-Falun Gong propaganda. Yet, Yan Jin stood resolutely in his faith to practise Dafa. He has been jailed and tortured for more than a month in the brainwashing centre, and his current situation is very critical. We appeal to all kindhearted people all over the world to be concerned about his case.

Behind the gate, a banner deceptively proclaims: "We touch people's innermost feelings, we persuade them with reason and we joyfully educate people". In reality, secret torture and cruel acts against kindhearted Falun Dafa practitioners occur here on a daily basis. The first floor of the building is the office area, the second floor is used to detain women, and the third floor is used to detain men, all of them Falun Gong practitioners.

Early on the morning of November 24, 2001, the City Police Department and the University security department broke into Bao's home to forcefully take him away. Under this pressure, Bao jumped out of the building in order to escape and broke his leg in the process. He was hospitalised as a result. After he came back from the hospital, the university kept pressuring him to give up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and even threatened to fire him.

Jiang utilised his power and all the propaganda machinery and public opinion tools in the country to carry out vicious defamation against our most respected Teacher and Falun Gong, and to deceive people throughout China. To promote justice and safeguard the truth, I, as one of millions of Falun Gong practitioners, and using my personal experiences of suffering during the persecution, and the facts of the persecution against my fellow practitioners that I have witnessed, request that Jiang Zemin and the "610 Office" be tried in the international court.

Because of this incident, my family members began to oppose my practising Falun Dafa. Although they knew that my health improved because of the practice and I persistently clarified the truth to them, they refused to listen to me and even became violent. They slapped me, threw me against the wall, and even attempted to throw me down the stairs. My neighbour witnessed this violence and said, "Isn' Falun Gong really good? Her two sons and husband beat her up like that, but she didn' fight back at all."

When practitioners held hunger strikes to protest the abuses, guards would tie their hands and feet, or send the practitioners to mental institutions for force-feeding. The "teachers" (the authorities at the Centre) squandered the money confiscated from Dafa practitioners on vacations, fine dining and gambling.

The police often put the steadfast practitioners into handcuffs, after which they would be hung by their wrists and beaten. Some practitioners were struck to the point that they were nearly unconscious, but the police still would not stop. Police would only stop when they were exhausted. Many practitioners were beaten to disability, and their hands were often fractured from the beatings.

At present, with the widespread of SARS in Beijing, all the elementary and secondary schools in Beijing have cancelled classes for two weeks and the education department in Beijing has started to promote tele-eduction. However, on the Myschool.net website that was just set up, an article using a pupil's writing was published to viciously attack Falun Dafa and its practitioners. It is obvious that Jiang's regime won't even spare innocent children in its persecution of Falun Gong!